Am I crazy? Second oven in utility room

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I always read the messages here so I've finally thought I'd post my first topic. It's quite silly so wanted to know if anyone else had done this?

We've successfully moved into a new house, and we are currently finalising plans to do up the kitchen. The kitchen is on the smaller side, but has a decent size dining room off of it and a small utility room.

We've been drawing up plans and to get maximum work surface in the small area, but to do this we can't have a wall mounted double oven. I love to cook, and over the past few years I've grown accustom to a double oven. I love having the ability to grill and bake something at the same time, and also for the occasional large dinner party / special events. All the undercounter double ovens are too small :-(

So to solve the space issue, but still keeping the extra oven, I had the crazy idea of putting a second oven in the utility. Is this really weird? Most people I've told this to say its a bit odd :-)

Has anyone else done this?

Are there things to consider?

Will the oven help dry clothes on the clothes horse?

NOTE: I thought I'd add that it could be a microwave and oven combined. I don't know if this makes it less weird.

Do whatever you want! I would question however if you'd actually use it that much and how much of a pain it would be karting food back and forward?

Is there room for a microwave/grill/oven in your kitchen? in a larder? on a wall shelf? Even if it was then put on the worktop for occasional use.

I'd rather have two under the counter ovens in the kitchen and store something else in a cupboard in the utility room (tea towels, large party dishes, BBQ tools or whatever).

We have something similar, a family kitchen with a dining area and then a "second kitchen" (feel like an asshole typing that)
It's just another room with a bigger oven and workspace, we also keep all of the kitchen gadgets we don't use regularly in it. It mainly gets used at Christmas and for dinner parties, I think it was supposed to be a large utility room and larder but we have that elsewhere.
I cook a lot and I absolutely love it, I can't give you practical advise about the DIY but I can tell you it's extremely useful.
Put in a sink aswell.

Not exactly, but the house we bought last year has a small 10' x 10' kitchen that just isn't big enough for us (when compared to our last house where we were spoilt by having a 36' x 16' kitchen ), so we plan to move the kitchen into the third reception room across the hall from the current kitchen.

The current kitchen will become our utility/pantry with d/w, washing machine, dresser and small appliances we don't want in view in the naice kitchen! We will install a decent size range cooker (looking at a Bertazzoni) in the new kitchen.

However, the current kitchen already has an Aga as well as a useless domino hob and neff oven which we're not going to the expense of moving, so we'll retain the Aga in the newly created utility and will use that to keep warm for when our entertaining requires extra oven/hob space

I've seen a few kitchens that have a range but the main oven that is used daily is in a utility room. I think it's a fab idea and would keep kitchen tidy-

CatMilkMan, are you Ed Miliband?

Thanks for all the replies...

@Sunnyshores there is only 60cm unit space really. So just enough for an oven. I could make a double oven fit but would really ruin what little space that is in the kitchen.

I had a double for five years in the previous house. I used it occasionally. Mainly for grilling and baking at the same time, or for those occasions when you cook the evening meal / tomorrows meal early. Realistically Id imagine I would use this between 10 - 20 times a year. Is reason enough?

It is reason enough, you don't need to justify it to anyone other than yourself and you wanting it is enough.
Will you make use of it? Yes
Can you afford it? I presume so

Will it be useful? Absolutely.

AgentProvocateur

Absolutely not, life is life I just wouldn't explain my reality to mumsnet.

We have our microwave in the utility room as there's no space in the kitchen. We don't use it very much (but never did even in our last house when it was in the kitchen), but it's useful having it there and I don't find it any hassle to pop to the next room to microwave something. Nobody has ever commented on it being weird either.

My microwave is in the utility and we use it all the time. I have two full ovens in the kitchen rather than a double oven. I'm not a big cook but I still use both of them all the time.

I would happily have an extra oven in the utility. I'd make sure I had a good extract fan as I wouldn't want my laundry smelling if roast dinner.